Thinking about launching your own blog? Here are some friendly advice: Do not. And if you already have one, pull the plug.

Writing a weblog today is not bright idea four years ago. Brightness, once fresh water from the oasis of self-expression and brightest minds, have been flooding by the tsunami are paid from the hull. Cut-rate journalist in the underground and marketing campaigns now take the original voice of amateur wordsmiths. It is almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why the fuss? The time required to craft a sharp, smart blog prose is better for expressing yourself in the spend Flickr, Facebook, or chatter.

If you quit now, you better in the company. Notorious chatterbox Jason Calacanis created from millions of blog network. But he flat-out pensioners own blog in July. "Blogging is simply too big, too general, and not the intimacy symptoms to me there," he wrote at the end of the post.

Impersonal is true: Scroll down the list of Technorati’s 100 top blogs and you will find the personal sites have been shoved to the side by a professional. Most basically, online magazines: The Work. Buildings. TreeHugger. A self-commentator can not follow the author’s pro team cranking out up to 30 posts a day.

When blogging is young, rode high for all of us, with the skyrocketing post quickly to the top of Google search results for certain topics, cheaper fuel with a link from fellow bloggers. In 2002, search for "Mark" ranked Web developer Mark Pilgrim on the author Mark Twain. That this phenomenon is part of what made blogs so that attractive. No more. Currently, the search for, say, Barack Obama will deliver a speech latest Wikipedia page, Fox News article, and some input from the professionals running the sites such as Politico.com. Opportunity your clever entries appear high on the list? Basically zero.

He said, your blog will still attract the Net’s lowest form of life: The commenter insult. Pour your heart in a post, and several anonymous rope called r0rschach or foohack sure to lower the scrawl, "Lame. Why do not you just suck panda’s ass." That is why Calacanis has retreated to a private mailing list. He can talk to fans directly, without having to suffer idiotic retorts from anonymous Jason-associative.

Furthermore, the text-based Web site is not where the buzz is longer. Reasons off their blog is made easy for the issuance of non-techies. Part of that is the simple lack of support for images, audio and videoclips. At the time, multimedia content is too hard to upload, is not possible to play, and too hungry for bandwidth.

Social multimedia sites such as YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook has done since the publication of pics and video as easy as typing text. More easily, if you consider most bloggers spend time fretting over their words. Take a clue from Robert Scoble, a Microsoft as "technical gospel" bloggers from 2003 to 2006. Today, he focuses on the edginess and post the video updates. "I keep my blog mostly for long-form writing," he said.

Flutter - the limit every postal text-only to 140 characters - 2008 is for what the blogosphere is for the year 2004. You will find Scoble, Calacanis, and most of their friends from the golden age there. They claim that because the edginess operate even more quickly from the blogosphere. Twitter post and can be searched quickly, without waiting for Google to index them.

As a writer, although I appeal to the real system: brevity. Bloggers today are expected to write intelligent, insightful, witty prose to compete with the Step and The New York Times. Flutter’s character limit for all the people put back on the same footing. Moreover, amateurs out agonizing over their writing and to cut the workforce.

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